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USRD WikiProject Newsletter, Spring 2012
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- —Imzadi 1979 → 00:14, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
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Adoption
Hello Morriswa. Because you have not edited your adoption page for three weeks, I would like to ask how the adoption's going. Regards, →Bmusician 06:46, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
- I apologize, but my sleep schedule is all out of whack, what with me working the 9:00PM-7:00AM shift. In fact, I woke up this morning before 5:00AM (today is a day off)! I have been wanting to work on your tasks, but either I am too tired, I have other stuff come up, or some other things happen to block me. I hope you will understand, and will bear with me. Allen (Morriswa) (talk) 09:29, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
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- EdwardsBot (talk) 23:14, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
Disambiguating links
You tagged an article as needing help to disambiguate a link. Townships that are ambiguous are disambiguated by county, and the county was one cell over to the left in the table. Even if you didn't know they were disambiguated by county, clicking the link to the disambiguation page would have shown you how they are differentiated. Sometimes it's better to take the few extra moments to figure out how to fix the link than to tag it, ok? Imzadi 1979 → 12:03, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
- Oh, if you're in the wiki-gnome mood, pick a state (Michigan's done already) and look through the junction lists. We made a big adjustment "behind the scenes", and now articles that use the templates to generate junction/exit lists have an extra column. (It was announced at WT:USRD a day or so ago and implemented last night.) Some articles specify how many columns the footer template should span in the table, and since we added a column, that number is probably one short now. (The old default was 5; now it is 6.) I'm sure that we'll be finding articles that were missed in the coming months, but the sooner we scout them out, the sooner we'll be fixed up. Imzadi 1979 → 12:08, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
Your cut/paste move of Cross Island Parkway
Hi, and thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you recently tried to give Cross Island Parkway a different title by copying its content and pasting either the same content, or an edited version of it, into another page with a different name. This is known as a "cut and paste move", and it is undesirable because it splits the page history, which is needed for attribution and various other purposes. Instead, the software used by Wikipedia has a feature that allows pages to be moved to a new title together with their edit history.
In most cases, once your account is four days old and has ten edits, you should be able to move an article yourself using the "Move" tab at the top of the page. This both preserves the page history intact and automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new. If you cannot perform a particular page move yourself this way (e.g. because a page already exists at the target title), please follow the instructions at requested moves to have it moved by someone else. Also, if there are any other pages that you moved by copying and pasting, even if it was a long time ago, please list them at Wikipedia:Cut and paste move repair holding pen. Thank you. – TMF (talk) 23:19, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
Test questions
The questions are here. I have just handed them out to you. Best, →Bmusician 01:06, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
Essential Records reverts
Categories These were all subcategories of the main albums category, so it doesn't aid navigation to emerge them all and it breaks the larger scheme under category:albums by record label. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:01, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
- Excuse me, but could you further explain what you meant by that? I don't understand. Thank you. Allen (Morriswa) (talk) 23:20, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
- Of course Here is the category tree:
- Of course Here is the category tree:
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- Note that (e.g.) Category:Essential Records (Christian) compilation albums is a subcategory of Category:Essential Records (Christian) albums, and that is categorized under Category:Essential Records (Christian). There's no need to upmerge all of the subcategories to the main top-level category. Compare with
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for instance. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 00:00, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
ER I see that you've requested an editor review. For what it's worth, I'd be happy to give my feedback about anything that you find confusing or frustrating in the future. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 09:39, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
Tagging highway articles
Short version, we don't dual-tag Maryland nor Michigan's wikiprojects in addition to USRD and the state TFs. Imzadi 1979 → 18:40, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
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- EdwardsBot (talk) 03:19, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
I-41
The Interstate designation for US 41 in Wisconsin was discussed at the AASHTO meeting of the Special Committee on U.S. Route Numbering in Traverse City, Michigan, this last weekend. The minutes state that the committee is in favor of extending the I-55 number up from Illinois into Wisconsin. WisDOT has not applied for a number yet, and likely will do so later this year. Imzadi 1979 → 01:11, 23 May 2012 (UTC)
Assessment tagging
Sandboxes aren't traditionally "assessed as templates, because, well, they aren't templates. They're draft proposals. Just like no one should assess User:Imzadi1979/Sandbox4 (which is my partially finished draft of an article about the Black River National Forest Scenic Byway), no one should be assessing sandboxes for templates. Imzadi 1979 → 20:51, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
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